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en-usTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:09:16 GMTFocus Forum15Hundreds March Against S.F. Archbishop&#x92;s &#x27;Morality Clauses&#x92;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274222/posts
Carrying signs reading &#x93;Who Am I to Judge?&#x94; and &#x93;Love One Another,&#x94; hundreds of students, teachers and supporters marched Monday evening from the Mission Dolores Basilica to the Cathedral of St. Mary in San Francisco, where they delivered petitions opposing the archbishop&#x92;s &#x93;morality clauses&#x94; at four Catholic high schools. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has come under fire for calling on teachers and staff members at high schools within the archdiocese &#x97; Sacred Heart Cathedral, Archbishop Riordan, Serra and Marin Catholic &#x97; to accept contract and handbook language against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, contraceptives and artificial insemination. Many of the...The San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274222/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:09:16 GMTCatholic Word of the Day: THEATINES, 03-31-15http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274199/posts
Featured Term selected at random:THEATINES&#xA0;The Clerks Regular of the Divine Providence founded in Rome in 1524 by two members of the Roman Oratory of Divine Love, St. Cajetan (1480-1547) and Gian Pietro Caraffa (1476-1559), later Pope Paul IV. Strictly austere, they were instrumental in advancing the Counter-Reformation. Their apstolic purpose is still essentailly the same: to restore in the Church of God the primitive rule of apostolic life. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon&#x27;s Modern Catholic Dictionary, &#xA9; Eternal Life. Used with permission.&#xA0;CCDictionaryhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274199/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 16:13:31 GMTMercy! So Great a Gift &#x96; Why Many Parishes Need to Reconsider When They Offer Confessionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274163/posts
Mercy! So Great a Gift &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; Why Many Parishes Need to Reconsider When They Offer the Sacrament of Confession By: Msgr. Charles PopeAt tonight&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s Chrism Mass, the Cardinal chose to focus his remarks to the&#xC2;&#xA0;more than&#xC2;&#xA0;300 priests in attendance&#xC2;&#xA0;on the beauty of the Sacrament of Confession and the power of mercy. What a magnificent&#xC2;&#xA0;gift the Lord gave His Church through the ministry of priests, that we can hear His blessed words, I absolve you from your sins &#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6; go in peace.My mind goes back to a beautiful story of St. John Paul II and a certain bishop (not of...Archdiocese of Washingtonhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274163/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 14:51:49 GMTBishop&#x92;s Bad Behavior: Cardinal O&#x92;Malley and Bishop Bootkoskihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274145/posts
In the past week or so, the outright mean, un-Christian-like actions of two bishops, Cardinal Sean O&#x92;Malley of Boston and Bishop Paul Bootkoski of Metuchen have been all over the news. If you have time, you should write or call both of them and ask them to apologize for their actions that have harmed innocent people. First, there was Cardinal O&#x92;Malley firing a janitor, a pastor, a school principal and a second-grade teacher because the janitor used the same bathroom that an elementary school student used and no one reported the fact that no crime and nothing inappropriate happened to...Boston Catholic Insiderhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274145/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 14:07:33 GMTGerman Church May Take Italian Football Star to Court Over Unpaid Taxeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274077/posts
Luca Toni reportedly failed to pay church taxes while playing for Bayern Munich in GermanyItalian footballer Luca Toni could be taken to court by the Catholic Church in Germany over unpaid church taxes, according to reports. According to Sport Mediaset, Toni did not pay the Kirchensteuer (church tax) while playing for Bayern Munich from 2007 to 2010 and a trial is now possible as the German Church attempts to claw back around &#x80;1.7m. It has has been reported that Toni, who currently play for Hellas Verona in Serie A, was initially registered by his accountant as an atheist, but later...The Catholic Herald (UK)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274077/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 11:18:36 GMTArchbishop Georg Ganswein: &#x27;Pope Francis Is Full of Surprises&#x27;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274075/posts
In Interview with La Nacion&#x27;s Elisabetta Pique, Prefect of the Pontifical Household Says Benedict XVI &#x22;Impressed&#x22; By SuccessorArchbishop Georg G&#xE4;nswein says Pope Benedict &#x93;follows his successor with great attention and sympathy.&#x94; The prefect of the Pontifical Household gave an interview to La Nacion&#x27;s Elisabetta Piqu&#xE9;, which was published on March 21st. The German prelate, who serves as personal secretary to both Pontiffs, said that in a number of ways he and Benedict have been &#x93;impressed&#x94; by Pope Francis, both as a human being and as a spiritual leader. While acknowledging that the first Jesuit Pope to hail from the Americas...Zenit News Agencyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274075/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 11:12:13 GMTMore garbage from Kasper the modernist paramourhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274019/posts
Reading some more quotes below from Cardinal Kasper, which reveal in stark clarity precisely why he is viewed as the arch-heretic Kung&#x92;s prize pupil and also why he is the current paramour of the modernists, I am struck by the question &#x96; who with a Catholic heart could not read this man&#x92;s work (filth might be a better word) and not react with revulsion? Who would find in this stuff &#x93;serenity?&#x94; Via Vox Cantoris: In 1967, this same German Kasper said: &#x93;The God who is enthroned over the world and history as a changeless being is an offence to man....A Blog for Dallas Area Catholicshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274019/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 02:36:13 GMTCatholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 03-31-15http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274016/posts
March 31, 2015&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; Tuesday of Holy Week &#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; Reading 1 Is 49:1-6 Hear me, O islands,listen, O distant peoples.The LORD called me from birth,from my mother&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s womb he gave me my name.He made of me a sharp-edged swordand concealed me in the shadow of his arm.He made me a polished arrow,in his quiver he hid me.You are my servant, he said to me,Israel, through whom I show my glory. Though I thought I had toiled in vain,and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength,Yet my reward is with the LORD,my recompense is with my God.For now the LORD has spokenwho...USCCB.org/RNABhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274016/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 02:28:26 GMTVatican Good Friday reflections ask: &#x91;When will death penalty be abolished?&#x92;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274010/posts
A series of reflections to be used by Pope Francis in Rome on Good Friday make connections between the crucifixion of Jesus and the modern-day use of the death penalty. The reflections, to be used by the pope at an annual public service in and near Rome&#x92;s historic Colosseum, pointedly ask: &#x93;When will the death penalty, still practiced in many states, be abolished?&#x94; That question is part of a service known as the &#x93;Way of the Cross,&#x94; a type of liturgical service frequently celebrated by Christians on Good Friday. The service follows Jesus through different stations of his torture and...National Catholic Reporterhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3274010/posts#commentTue, 31 Mar 2015 02:15:12 GMTThe Mystery and Power of Personal Prayerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273961/posts
I am continually amazed at how many Catholics forget the power of personal prayer. There are priestly, consecrated and lay apostles who make significant commitments to the active Christian life, including the Church&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s liturgical life, but fail to nourish that commitment through personal prayer. There are Catholic parents who take their Faith seriously but seldom remember to pray for their children. And of course there are many relatively casual Catholics who fail to cultivate a personal prayer life of any kind. Personal and Private Prayer There is certainly great power in public prayer, especially the Mass and the Sacraments, by...Catholic Culturehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273961/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 23:45:20 GMTMust Catholicism Be Patriarchal?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273901/posts
Someone was joking recently that the reason the Eastern Orthodox cannot have women bishops is because one can&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t call a woman &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Patriarch.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; Behind the wisecrack is some wisdom, and the existence of women ministers in non-Catholic denominations raises the question of just how patriarchal the Christian religion must be.&#xC2;&#xA0; Is it necessary to call priests &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Father&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; and refer to the Pope as &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Holy Father&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;? The title &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Abbot&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; comes from the ancient term &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Abba-Father,&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; and &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;pope&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; comes from the Greek word pappas &#xE2;&#x80;&#x94; &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;daddy.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; Are these no more than human traditions? Are these just social constructs? Or is the idea of...NC Registerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273901/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 21:08:07 GMTAre You Ready for the Blood Moon? (Catholic Caucus)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273894/posts
With the third blood moon in a tetrad approaching on Easter, and colliding&#xC2;&#xA0;on a Jewish Feast Day, prophecies are swirling about important events to stun the world: war, earthquake, volcanic eruption, Church schism, terrorist attack, economic crash, disease outbreak, asteroids or the end of Western life as we know it&#xC2;&#x85;&#xC2;&#xA0; Are you ready for all that?&#xC2;&#xA0; Me neither. I&#xC2;&#x92;m preoccupied enough paying attention to my present day-to-day duties and will gladly turn over tomorrow to God&#xC2;&#x92;s capable hands. &#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; And yet, Jesus taught us to expect that the kingdom of God is coming any day.&#xC2;&#xA0; Knowing that today could be...Catholic Standhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273894/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 20:41:16 GMTCatholic Word of the Day: FATHERS OF THE DESERT, 03-30-15http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273808/posts
Featured Term selected at random:FATHERS OF THE DESERT&#xA0;The hermits and monks of the early Church who developed religious life from its Gospel origins and laid the groundwork for all future institutes of Christian perfection. Since most of them lived in the deserts of Egypt, from the third through the fourth centuries, they are called Desert Fathers. The standard collection of the lives of these Fathers is in ten volumes and contains the biographies of Sts. Paul, Anthony, and Hilarion, and of the women religious Sts. Eugenie, Euphrasia, Euphrosyne, Mary the Egyptian, and many others. All items in this dictionary...CCDictionaryhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273808/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 16:21:51 GMTIn Summation: Does any Church or Council possess infallibility or did Jesus alone possess this?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273790/posts
Here is the summation for the previous threads and the last of this for some time: Jesus Christ alone possessed the intrinsic quality of infallibility, was unlike any man that has ever lived, and was in a class all by Himself. There were some (like the Ebionites) who believed that Jesus was the messiah but also believed that he lacked divinity. Some, like those who ascribed to Arianism or semi-Arianism, who were somewhere in between the Ebionites and those who believed/believe that Jesus was fully God and Fully Man. Each of these nonetheless believed that Jesus was unlike any man...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273790/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 15:34:08 GMTSpend This Week With Jesus &#x96; A Daily Chronology of Jesus&#x92; &#x93;Last&#x94; Weekhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273767/posts
Spend This Week With Jesus &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; A Daily Chronology of Jesus&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Last&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; Week By: Msgr. Charles PopeAt the heart of our faith is the Paschal mystery: the Passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. All of salvation history leads up to and goes forth from these saving events. The purpose of this post is to describe Jesus&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; final week. We call this &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Holy Week&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; because Jesus&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; public ministry culminates with His suffering, death, and resurrection. What follows is a brief description of each day of Holy Week.&#xC2;&#xA0;I hope you will print out this flyer (Walking-with-Jesus-In-Holy-Week) and read it...Archdiocese of Washingtonhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273767/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 14:45:27 GMTAs Latin Mass Gains Popularity, Some in North Jersey Reluctant to &#x91;Turn Back&#x92;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273723/posts
On Thursday, March 19, about 60 Catholics from North Jersey celebrated the Feast of St. Joseph with a high Mass at a church in Bergen County. The service began at 7:30 p.m. with a solemn procession, replete with flickering candles and incense, and ended 90 minutes later, with the priest shaking the hands of attendees &#x97; and requesting that neither his name nor the name of his church be revealed in this article. Unlike today&#x92;s Palm Sunday services and the parish&#x92;s other regularly scheduled Masses, this Mass was not listed on the monthly calendar of the church&#x92;s website, and few...North Jersey.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273723/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 13:14:59 GMTJoy Comes from Faith, Not Doctrine, Pope Sayshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273719/posts
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God&#x27;s law is about love for God and for others, not cold, abstract doctrine, Pope Francis said at a morning Mass. &#x22;It&#x27;s sad to be a believer without joy and there is no joy when there is no faith, when there is no hope, when there is no law, but only rules and cold doctrine,&#x22; he said at the Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae March 26. &#x22;The joy of faith, the joy of the Gospel is the touchstone of a person&#x27;s faith. Without joy, that person is not a true believer,&#x22; he said, according to...Catholic News Servicehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273719/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 13:08:58 GMTTed Cruz in NYC: Conservative Christians Being Tricked to Believe General Public Disagrees With Themhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273662/posts
NEW YORK &#x96; Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas, stressed during a closed-door meeting with New York City Christian leaders earlier this week that for the first time in history an astounding 65 percent of Americans do not think that their children will have a better life than them. Cruz, who is the first in an expected crowded Republican field to officially launch a presidential campaign, said that this depressing outlook is unacceptable and that there is a need to restore hope for those who have lost their faith in America&#x27;s leadership. &#x22;America wants to believe that America has...The Christian Post's Politicshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273662/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 04:12:07 GMTCatholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 03-30-15http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273647/posts
March 30, 2015Monday of Holy Week &#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; Reading 1 Is 42:1-7 Here is my servant whom I uphold,my chosen one with whom I am pleased,Upon whom I have put my Spirit;he shall bring forth justice to the nations,Not crying out, not shouting,not making his voice heard in the street.A bruised reed he shall not break,and a smoldering wick he shall not quench,Until he establishes justice on the earth;the coastlands will wait for his teaching. Thus says God, the LORD,who created the heavens and stretched them out,who spreads out the earth with its crops,Who gives breath to its peopleand spirit...USCCB.org/RNABhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273647/posts#commentMon, 30 Mar 2015 02:38:47 GMTWhy I&#x27;m Catholic: Ex-London Gangster, John Pridmore, Returns to the Faithhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273602/posts
My name is John Pridmore and this is my story. I was born in the East End of London at the Salvation Army Hospital. Though I was baptised as a Catholic I never went to a Catholic school or to church. At the age of ten I came home on a normal night and my parents told me I had to choose who I wanted to live with because they were getting divorced. I loved my parents so much and I couldn&#x92;t choose because the two people I loved the most had just crushed me. It was then that...Aleteiahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273602/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 23:16:53 GMTA Day-by-Day Guide to Jesus&#x27; Last Weekhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273580/posts
At the heart of our faith is the Paschal Mystery: the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ. All of salvation history leads up to and goes forth from these saving events. The purpose of this post is to describe Jesus&#x92; Final week. We call this &#x93;Holy Week&#x94; for Jesus&#x92; public ministry culminates with his suffering, death and resurrection.&#xA0; What follows is a brief description of each day of Holy Week. It is hoped that you might print out the pdf flyer (Walking-with-Jesus-In-Holy-Week) and read it each day of this week. Prayerfully walk with Jesus in his most...Aleteiahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273580/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 21:26:04 GMTA Sunday in Nisan (Fulton J. Sheen)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273579/posts
It was the month of Nisan. The Book of Exodus ordered that in this month the Paschal Lamb was to be selected, and four days later was to be taken to the place where it was to be sacrificed. On Palm Sunday, the Lamb was chosen by popular acclaim in Jerusalem; on Good Friday He was sacrificed.His last Sabbath Our Lord spent in Bethany with Lazarus and his sisters. News was now circulated that Our Lord was coming into Jerusalem. In preparation for His entrance, He sent two of His disciples into the village, where they were told they would...The Catholic Thinghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273579/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 21:18:22 GMTCatholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East has reposedhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273552/posts
It is great sorrow and a heavy heart that His Beatitude Mar Aprem, Metropolitan of India and Patriarchal Vicar, in unison with all the members of the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East (absent were Mar Aprim Nathniel and Mar Narsai Benyamin due to visa difficulties), announce the falling asleep in the Lord of His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. The late Patriarch passed at 10:04 am, this morning (Thursday, March 26, 2015) at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. His Holiness was surrounded by the prelates, clergy and family members....Assyrian Church of the Easthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273552/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 19:11:08 GMTPalm Sunday: Pope Francis Praises Modern Martyrs As &#x22;Cloud Of Witnesses&#x22;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273543/posts
In his Palm Sunday homily, Pope Francis held up persecuted Christians as modern heroes because of their faithfulness to God even in the midst of hardships. They are the ones who follow Jesus on his path of humiliation, Francis said.Breitbart.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273543/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 18:44:49 GMTA Modern Translation [Beatitudes for modernists]
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The Church, I&#x92;ve been hearing, has to change, if she is going to have any leverage with men and women of our time. What that means, of course, is that they would like a sexual permission slip. It&#x92;s the only thing they care about. What&#x92;s it to them, after all, if the Church does not change her teachings, even if she could? They don&#x92;t obey them anyway. But perhaps they are setting their revisionary sights too low. Why change the Bride of Christ, when you might as well go for Christ Himself? Why trick out the bride in lingerie from...The Catholic Thinghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3273540/posts#commentSun, 29 Mar 2015 18:34:53 GMT